skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> can prevent LLM-generated content from destroying the key to our startup?

If LLM-generated content can "destroy" your startup, you need a new startup. Programmatically-generated content and people trying to game the algorithm has been a problem for literal decades, and Google/Facebook/Instagram/etc. is still going strong.
and the account that submitted here has zero comments.
Shouldn't the headline be "Person who bought chatgpt.com on godaddy pointed it at an openai IP address" since that's all we know? They could just change it on godaddy to point to geminis IP tomorrow in godaddy dns settings if they wanted, right? How do we know openai is even involved?
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: LLM, RAG, Python, Document Processing, OCR, Image Processing, NLP

Résumé/CV: https://superdocs.io

Email: superdocsio@gmail.com

I'm a freelance consultant specializing in document processing.

Currently focused on LLM + RAG apps.
If you're interested in a "chat with your PDFs" app, I can help.

I can also help with:

- Extraction of data from PDF documents (structured, semi-structured, unstructured)
- OCR projects
- Table detection/recognition
- Document classification
- Document splitting
- PDF workflow automation

Recently we launched 2 SaaS:

https://getsearchablepdf.com - PDF OCR made easy

https://table2xl.com - Convert PDF tables to Excel in seconds
I am more than happy to stand with this as your reply to what I wrote above.

And I will make a prediction: you are unable to physically answer that question, in this forum, in a non-evasive manner (and field reasonable follow up questions).

And, you are welcome to implicitly (this word is important) or explicitly ~"declare victory" (the quotation marks around this phrase are important) in any way you like, I enjoy it.
The more complete and histocally evidenced rule is that all institutions eventually just work to continue and/or expand their existence in itself.

They can get founded in the genuine interests of some cause (and often are), but each transition in leadership tends to find itself more professionalized in some way and more divorced from the founding cause, with process (and/or corruption) becoming their effective mandate instead.

Unions, sadly, have shown no exception, which is what allowed public opinion to eventually swing against the post-war batch of them. We could use some fresh unions in many industries for sure, but there's no truth in putting them on a pedestal. They're prone to devolve and corrupt just like everything else, and there are people who still carry the experience of having seen them do so.
When will Apple release an iPhone with a LLM? How will this effect the Apple stock price?
For sure, job application submission is an awful mess. As a rule, I won’t apply anywhere that uses Workday, considering they require you to create an account to submit your application.

Truth is, any company that makes getting a job an awful experience (despite every incentive to the contrary) won’t be any better once you’re an employee.
Feels like they’ll probably have more gestures built into AirPods sooner or later.
David Unwin is a real hero, things are starting to move hopefully for diabetics

Recommanded readings

https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/02/bmjnph-20...

https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2023/01/02/bmjnph-20...

https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2023/12/14/bmjnph-20...

Those papers are the most read papers of BMJ nutrition whole history, and this is the top journal of the field
I guess there are two problems it causes that you might want to solve: the annoyance of the extra ceremony and the risk of losing access because you lose the key.

If you don't need more security on top of your existing (presumably high entropy) password, the latter problem might be solved by publishing the totp key. The GitHub bio box is public, mostly pointless and a sensible size...

The former might be solved with a bookmarklet that embeds the key and fills out the relevant form automatically. If you're going to publish the key, presumably publishing this in as convenient a form as possible also makes sense.
Classic principal-agent problem. It's why you can't usually trust experts who aren't aligned with you. One way is skin in the game.

But I suppose "if you aren't paying, you're not the customer" applies as well to nutrition and medicine as it does to free webmail.
blog: https://snafuhall.com/

The Internet is like the Ganges of news: I collect a daily pile of the tasty chunks.
Some prehistoric group probably didn’t shape the planet on a large scale because there weren’t that many of them and they weren’t knowledge or organized enough.
The database couldn't be used anymore! Pretty severe corruption.
The book summaries are also wildly inaccurate.
I can't really put it elsewhere and it does get loud when it's turned on so I will try sound proofing it somehow in the future (already swapped the Ubiquiti Switch's fans to Noctua ones).

The main noise source are the HDDs so it would be nice to get SSDs instead but I don't have the budget for that sadly.
My company uses it. Our team is about the same size. I have mixed feelings. It has been useful for things like making sure a new repository is created with all of the CI goodies every project should have. You can also use it to automate things like opening PRs against your gitops repo to get apps deployed from a template.

Creating software templates can be a large investment. It would be great if there was a software template marketplace. The backstage contributors took a stab at this by creating a template repo that has not been updated in about a year. https://github.com/backstage/software-templates

If you do invest in creating a template, be sure to get plenty of stakeholder feedback so the thing you make is something that actually gets used.
I think what you’re missing is that a nuclear submarine wouldn’t let a UUV “follow it indefinitely.” Also, the submarine can have its own fleet of UUVs.
I think you're getting bogged down in a very popular philosophical quagmire, which I feel is not a very useful place to linger. But, I can share a few landmarks I remember from past slogs.

At a rhetorical level: Don't fixate on what math can or cannot describe. In the past, it could not describe states of matter, though they certainly existed. Now, we can describe and simulate such states pretty well. But describing, detecting, or simulating does not mean recreating. I don't think any of us currently "know" whether consciousness will be better described, detected, or simulated in the future.

At an introspective level: When pondering the "experience of being me", don't forget to question the identity concept "me" as much as the experience part... Consider altered states of consciousness through drugs, disease, or brain injury. It can really expand your view here to empathize with someone who suffers one or more of these issues, where you can consider their illusory identity and experience.
We will know it was a bubble when it bursts. It might be followed by another AI bubble 20 years down the road. There's no contradiction between "technology trend" and periodic bubbles. Those who lose $$$ along the way may console themselves with thinking about technology trends. :-)
YC’s founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona
Hey there, author here!

Unfortunately, we're not able to share all the details until the issues are patched and can't share the APK because (legal reasons)

That said, I've already seen it widely in circulation though, especially on X.
How do you know that? If they can they'll make sure other people wouldn't find out easily.
Companies grow - today you have 50 engineers and a few microservices, in 2 years you might have 200 engineers and tons of APIs and web applications. I think if old orgs could have bought off the shelf developer portals years ago, they would have. Now companies that grow have this option.

It might not be a massive market, but there are a few interesting companies building this kind of tools and they sell it
In 1998 I found some articles online by Russell and put them here: http://trondal.com/russell/russell.html
The essay comes up every now and then in HN, 5 pages of it in search. I'm unsure if it reached the status of most shared essay yet. Does anyone know?
https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-le...
For many companies it’s a core part of their operating procedure. Cost to acquire, cost to serve and churn reduction being the core elements that they watch like hawks. Answering customer queries eats away at that cost to serve variable.
"First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
"

It's the Iron Law of Bureaucracy
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
I don’t think there’s any vanilla php in use at meta
You asked a question, I answered it.

Are you engaging in rhetoric, or are you actually serious?

Where is that quote from by the way?
This is a great idea- sound samples per profile.

Love the app idea!
> We’ve all heard how JFK outsmarted Nixon during their televised debate by wearing a blue shirt, because blue showed up as white whereas Nixon’s white shirt showed up as gray.

Huh. I always heard that Nixon refused makeup and JFK didn’t, with the result being about the same: Kennedy looked healthy and Nixon looked like a sweaty corpse. But considering the quality of TV screens and broadcasts in 1960, the shirt thing sounds more realistic.
I like this essay but I've found it hard to be idle. I jumped aboard the FIRE train so I could coast the rest of my life, and quit my job once when I was 31 and then when I was 33 after working for a year.

Now I'm working the same dead end job again and I don't mind it. When I'm not working I'm consuming YouTube, HN and reddit. Not sure how to love idleness again.

I used to be able to sit still for an hour at a time (meditation).
Unions aren't acting in the interest of the people generically, often not even the members of the union. Otherwise they wouldn't go to court to force people who don't even want to be in the union to pay dues, even when the dues go to political campaigns unrelated to the purpose of the union, as in Janus v. AFSCME (where the support for political causes by the union meant it violated public sector workers freedom of speech if they are compelling fees from non-members, a relatively narrow ruling not impacting most unions).
They circle and kettle in other circumstances as well, but no, they definitely do circle iver carcasses (and what may soon become so). It's a familiar site if you live around them.

Do you remember where you heard it's a myth? I'd be curious to see how that argument was made.
I don't remember seeing a class on it but it was a long time ago. I also don't remember it being required to get a degree. I just looked on my college's website and they offer 2 assembly classes it looks like, I'm not sure if they existed when I went there (I assume they did) and neither looks like it's required but I don't have the time or energy to dive back into that kafkaesque hellscape of figuring out what's required to graduate.

However, I didn't get a degree so maybe it was shoehorned into some high level course. I had a job writing software while I was in college and dropped out to do that full time once I felt I wasn't getting any value from continuing my "education". It's never been an issue in my career and I've done well by my own metrics at least.
There is nothing about carbs themselves that is bad for diabetics.

Carbs are necessary macronutrient for everybody.

If you mean certain foods that also have a high percentage of carbs then sure but carbs are not the problem.

Take this line from the article itself, for example.

> It can be challenging for many people with diabetes to forgo the breads, sweets, pastas and starches that form the basis of many diets.

What’s common about these foods isn’t that they’re high in carbs. It’s that they’re nutritionally deficient foods that have been stripped of all their fibers and basically reduced to sugars.

Further, the diets promoted as low carb popularly are not good diets either for diabetics or for non diabetics.
> When will the AI bubble burst?

This year

> What will trigger it?

World events affecting all markets

> What do we really need LLMs for that humans can't?

LLMs are fantastic and are a huge boon. We'll be using them to our collective advantage for a long time to come. But the AI bubble is more a reflection of capital movement than technological promise.
Should I add CLA to my Open-source project?
Last week we showcased our open-source project, OpenLIT (https://github.com/openlit/openlit), here, and thanks to this incredible community, we hit 300 stars in just a couple of days!

One of my mentors, a core lead on OpenTelemetry, suggested we consider adding a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) to our project, similar to what has been done with OpenTelemetry.

I understand the potential legal benefits a CLA offers, such as ensuring contributions can be freely used and distributed, which could be crucial for the project's long-term viability and to avoid legal complications.

However, I’m equally concerned about the potential downsides, especially regarding community contributions. I worry that a CLA might stop new contributors who prefer to avoid legal hurdles or are reluctant to sign documents. Since OpenLIT aims to be truly open-source and community-driven, keeping the contribution process as straightforward as possible is essential to me.

So, I’m turning to you, HN community, for guidance:

- Have you implemented a CLA for your project? What impact did it have on contributions?
- As a contributor, do you find CLAs off-putting? Why or why not?
- What recommendations do you have for a CLA that isn't too restrictive but still provides necessary legal protections?

I'm also open to tool suggestions for managing CLAs or examples from your own open-source projects that I can learn from.

Thanks in advance for your wisdom and advice!
Are you hating because UK doesn’t get this? Can I not tell what I do with my device? I am not imposing anything, especially to weening people. FFS.
Thank you so much for your content over the years. It is genuinely a feel good experience but also full of substance. It is genuinely enjoyable and the topics are really fun.

The youtube videos are amazing and also love the book and its presentation! Thank you for putting out such genuinely feel good and positive content.
I’m not sure I’d know how to listen to AM radio over the air. Don’t think my Honda has one. Don’t know about my stereo receiver. Think I have a many decades old transistor radio in th house somewhere because I ran across it a few years back.
Totally agree - I will just add that 1 or 2 times a year I do the opposite. I call out stupid when I see it and spare nothing. Clear, straight criticism leveled at management if I can find them.

Your right: they know it's screwed up most of the time. But the front line is not at root responsible ... and I get a bit of extra satisfaction flushing management out into the open so they can't hide out.
No, the CEO is just fucking weird and doesn't seem to mind that he puts people off with his low wages and idiosyncratic, drawn out hiring practices.
Microsoft's Seeing AI app for low-vision and blind users comes to Android (2023)
There is no "the interest of the people". There are lots of different people with different and often conflicting interests.
LLM can't find a missing ampersand? Sad!
Worth noting that the only requirements to be recognized as an Association by the IRS is that there must be a dated, written document showing its creation, signed by at least two people. [1]

[1] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/definition-of-an-a...
Next sept. Rumors have already pushed stock prices up. They have also announced a buyback.
Avoiding single use items that pollute the environment for hundreds or thousands of years is rational whether you want children or not.

Of course using a plastic straw isn't what got us into this mess and small individual choices like that won't save us.
Nah. If you see that kind of thing, just nope out from that place and move on to the next one.

There's no shortage of places looking for people. :)
My diabetic wife has long been horrified at the dietary recommendations coming from the ADA, they are worse than useless. I don't blame the whistleblower for settling but it's a shame those people won't take consequences for actively harming people in exchange for corporate contributions. Their nonprofit status doesn't keep them from paying the top officers fat salaries out of those donations.
I adore this book. A second edition?! Boy howdy is that exciting. Thanks so much Daniel!
Good tip. Also, many customers will classify their enquiry as “other” anyway.
It was also the start of politically weaponized Keynesianism. When Republicans are in power they spend massively to stoke the economy while using deficit hawk rhetoric. When they lose power they blame the ensuing deficits on Democrats. Works incredibly well because people don’t look beneath the headlines.
Breaking the Cycle
One memorable part of getting paid coaching for interviews was the admonishment "There is no place for honesty in a behavioral interview. No one is going to check on your story."
Ever had a day where your bandwidth was constrained and you just knew something was wrong with a situation, but your brain lacked the juice or dexterity to connect/articulate the issue?

If I have the presence of mind, I offload the work here. At the same time I have a strong understanding of how coaching works, as does my brain.

I suspect that with all things LLM, some amount of proficiency is needed to truly get the prompts to work.

The simplest option is to ask it to be a coach for you. This is going to be hit and miss.

The better version is to specify the kind of coaching you want, or provide a rough outline of the issues on your mind and then ask for what kind of coach or therapist would make sense.

I use either of these for example -
1) over designed - https://chat.openai.com/g/g-KD6jm0l4c-thought-council
2) base ver - https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Cdq3drl87-two-guides

Sadly OpenAI doesnt let you share active chats anymore, so it’s going to need a plus subscription.
APU’s for HPC are going to be a wild ride. Accelerated computing in shared memory. Get CPU-focused folks will actually get access to some high throughput compute accessible on the sort of timescales that we can actually reason about (the GPU is so far away).
This made me think of this passage from "Happy to Work Here: understanding and improving the culture at work" which is on the web[0]:

The business of busyness is a contradiction in terms. The more politics forces you to look busy, the less time there is for real business. An old joke to set the tone for this section:

A group of excited young curates crashes into the office of the Archbishop at St. Patrick’s cathedral. “Your Eminence!” one of them cries. “Jesus Christ has just appeared in lower Manhattan!”
“What?!”
“He walked across the water and came ashore in Battery Park.”
“Oh my.”
“And now he’s headed up Fifth Avenue toward St. Patrick’s. He could be here any minute!”
“I see.”
“So, tell us, Eminence, what do we do?”
The Archbishop thinks that over for a moment and finally says, “Look busy.”

An apparent busyness can be a sign of deep and very professional engagement in an important task, vital to the long-term interests of the organization. Or it might be a sign of something else entirely. In a fearful organization it most likely implies a worry that it’s downright unsafe to seem unbusy. The unspoken rule that governs people in this case is:

Look busy.

Of course, the fear itself has already done damage to the organization’s culture. But obedience to the unspoken rule makes the matter worse. The consequences of everyone trying to look busy include:

• No time for reflection

• No time to confer with colleagues (which might be interpreted as “chatting”)

• No time for lunch

• No time for training

• Nobody willing to be away from his/her desk

• No off-site activities

• A general uneasiness with activities that might seem “passive” like reading, and research.

Most of the things that the rule makes impossible are culture positive. That is, they help the culture heal and improve itself. The more you find yourself and your co-workers compelled to look busy, the surer you can be that your working culture is damaged.

[0] https://systemsguild.eu/
(cofounder here)

Thanks for the feedback! We have some ideas, and to be honest, the feedback here has been great to firm up some of our assumptions.

I'd like to follow up on this if you're interested. Feel free to email (lowercasehq@gmail.com).
Whoa, I’m surprised I never heard of this! Thanks!
> "Requiring the installation of analog AM radios in automobiles is an unnecessary action that would impact EV range, efficiency and affordability at a critical moment of accelerating adoption," said Albert Gore, executive director of ZETA, a clean vehicle advocacy group that opposes the AM radio requirement.

Um, what? I'm not an electrical or automotive engineer, but this doesn't sound true. AM radios can be small, light and cheap, and in terms of power, the important components are already in the sound system, right? IDK what would need to be involved to address the issue of interference from the motor, but I also don't think anyone's saying they have to build anything heavy or power-hungry.
In such dysfunctional case the truth is that you do not have an old system to reconcile with - there's no real system of record
I suspect they're talking about shadowing. You can't change the type of an existing variable, but you can create a new variable with the same name but a different type.
Somewhat related: the dev behind replyguy said he is working to add AI astroturfers to HN comments as well. I'm curious to know what type of mechanisms (if any) will be adopted to detect and neutralize them.
Show HN: I built an app that lets you track your gym workouts
I workout alot in the gym and wanted to have an app that feels modern and i can track my workouts & progress with ease. I've realesed it on Google Play (on iOS soon), but you can also add it to your home screen as a PWA.

Hope you guys enjoy, Feedback and thoughts are apreciated.
> At some point if you live in society, it's useful to build a virtual machine that describes what your neighbour feels when you punch him.

This is where the argument falls down, for me. Why would this ever happen if your neighbour wasn't feeling things to begin with? Which, considering you're probably the same species as your neighbour, suggests you also feel things.

Nothing is explained. We just have a little story that makes us stop asking questions. A thought-terminating cliché.
Contrast the uncertain sentiment in your last comment with "has to have" and various other "facts" of questionable origin above.
That's super bizarre. I manually verified that the url worked after I archived it.

I wonder if the do some kind of DCMA thing automatically for urls on their website, to have them removed from the wayback machine?
You want to do a lot but you don't want to pay for it. There is a shit ton of complexity on the web and the current frameworks (ie: NextJS/React/TypeScript) try to hide/manage this complexity but this only goes so far.

As soon as you hit an edge outside of their matrix of management you open the dark Pandora box of front-end development.